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1229 viewsResearchers stop to check out the snow during the traverse of East Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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1174 viewsThe traverse team runs into a group of skiers racing across the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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1168 viewsTraverse vehicles travel across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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1142 viewsThis support truck followed the ski race across Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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1117 viewsThe traverse team runs into a group of skiers racing across the Antarctic Ice Sheet
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1116 viewsSouth Pole station looks tiny when viewed from a distance.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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1109 viewsThe traverse team runs into a group of skiers racing across the Antarctic Ice Sheet
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1091 viewsAn airplane waits to pick up the skiers at the end of their race across the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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1085 viewsThis support truck followed the ski race across Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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Antarctic Snow Dunes1075 viewsExtensive snow dunes wrinkle the surface of large parts of East and West Antarctica. The dunes are up to 100 kilometers long and separated by 2 to 4 kilometers, but only a few meters high. Comparison of modern satellite images with images acquired four decades earlier reveals that the dunes are nearly motionless.
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1071 viewsThis Landsat image of Crane Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula is overlain with ICESat and Airborne Topopgraphic Mapper (ATM) tracks. ATM is a lidar sensor that is now part of the IceBridge mission. Over time, ICESat and ATM measurements, together with visible imagery, can detect thinning of the ice and accelerated flow of ice into the ocean. Large glaciers such as Crane have the potential to contribute significantly to sea level rise.
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Antarctica1064 viewsSea ice concentration from the NSIDC Sea Ice Index.
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